A Nice Walk ( with photos )

PeppermintPatty · Thursday at 12:09 PM

Today we went to the provincial park again. We walked up the road to the lighthouse and trudged our way through the nature trail. Most of the campers were gone. The camping season ended last weekend but there were a few people left , most of which had picked private campsites.

When we walk, we walk up the road section first, then we walk on the nature trail and finally end up walking down the hill towards the end.

We looked this bush up and its called a wild burning bush. Unlike our cultivated ones, that dont have berries.

It’s time for a lazy nap. I’m sure I’m not the only one having a nap today. I love my naps.
Have a great day folks.

Paco Dennis · Thursday at 5:46 PM

This is a view from our back door. When I got here 40 years ago these magnificent trees were half as tall!!!

seadoug · Thursday at 7:09 PM

Dallas Arboretum has a seasonal Pumpkin Festival but this year they added Mundo Mexico with beautiful sculptures. This was our first day in the low 80's in Dallas so hubs and I took advantage of it!

PeppermintPatty · Friday at 1:59 PM

Wow Seadoug,
You two make a very handsome couple.
What a vibrantly colourful festival you both went to. Thanks for sharing it with us.

PeppermintPatty · Friday at 2:03 PM

Paco Dennis said:
This is a view from our back door. When I got here 40 years ago these magnificent trees were half as tall!!!

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Hi Dennis! What types of trees are they?
Do you have any neighbours that you can see from your house?

PeppermintPatty · Friday at 2:06 PM

Today was rainy so we went into Sydney. It cleared up a bit but then there was a huge downpour, so needless to say, there was no walk and no pictures. I’ll try and make it up to you tomorrow.

Paco Dennis · Friday at 8:20 PM

PeppermintPatty said:
Hi Dennis! What types of trees are they?
Do you have any neighbours that you can see from your house?

I think they are Elm. That area was on the bank of our old waste pond. They love water.

No, we can not see our neighbors, but we can hear them...wild parties, and the 4th of July.

TeePee · Friday at 11:09 PM

PeppermintPatty said:
Today we went on a trail walk about 6 to 7 kilometres. It’s a rainy day but the walk was fun. The dogs loved it. This trail has lots of nice bridges and waterfalls. Here are some bridges, later I’ll show the waterfalls. The forest ferns are just popping up. View attachment 287556
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Beautiful landscape!

Kadee · Friday at 11:17 PM

PeppermintPatty said:
Wow Seadoug,
You two make a very handsome couple.
What a vibrantly colourful festival you both went to. Thanks for sharing it with us.

Got to agree @PeppermintPatty about seadoug and his hubby

You both look very fit and healthy @seadoug

Kadee · Friday at 11:21 PM

seadoug said:
Dallas Arboretum has a seasonal Pumpkin Festival but this year they added Mundo Mexico with beautiful sculptures. This was our first day in the low 80's in Dallas so hubs and I took advantage of it!

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I wouldn't want to get hit on the head by those pumpkins if the string holding them gave way @seadoug

Kadee · Friday at 11:24 PM

PeppermintPatty said:
Today was rainy so we went into Sydney. It cleared up a bit but then there was a huge downpour, so needless to say, there was no walk and no pictures. I’ll try and make it up to you tomorrow.

You didn’t tell me you was coming to Australia @PeppermintPatty

I could have told ya Sydney is nearly always stormy and wet

PeppermintPatty · Saturday at 4:13 AM

Paco Dennis said:
I think they are Elm. That area was on the bank of our old waste pond. They love water.

No, we can not see our neighbors, but we can hear them...wild parties, and the 4th of July.

This is an elm tree.
Hopefully they don’t party often.

PeppermintPatty · Saturday at 7:30 AM

Kadee said:
You didn’t tell me you was coming to Australia @PeppermintPatty
I could have told ya Sydney is nearly always stormy and wet

No wonder I couldn’t find you.

PeppermintPatty · Saturday at 12:26 PM

Today we went into town , the opposite way from yesterday. The route was so colourful that I had to take pictures.

This is an old abandoned barn

This is the view from the highway when it meets up with the ocean. It’s taken from inside the car.

This is a picture of the ferns changing colour.

It was 18 degrees today and sunny. A lovely autumn day. Have a nice weekend everyone.

Kadee · Saturday at 4:22 PM

Ya

PeppermintPatty said:
No wonder I couldn’t find you.

Ya must have got in the wrong plane

@PeppermintPatty

Sydney - Wikipedia , we traveled over and under the Sydney harbour bridge in April this year

It has a giant tunnels ( in the water ) for traffic …it’s horrible I didn’t like it at all….its freezing cold

and very polluted ….and it cost us $30 .09 in Toll fees ( we don’t have tolls in SA )

Kadee · Saturday at 4:28 PM

Sorry @PeppermintPatty …not walking photos

Sydney harbour bridge and tunnel , New South Wales….taken by me with my phone while traveling

Kadee · Saturday at 4:44 PM

We have those red coloured trees in winter in the Adelaide hills ,in Mount lofty botanic gardens and towns in the hills https://www.visitadelaidehills.com.au/autumn

( to hot for those trees on the plains , which most of Adelaide is on )
it’s a stunning display and attracts 100’ visitors to the hills area

@PeppermintPatty

PeppermintPatty · Saturday at 4:50 PM

Thanks for sharing your Sydney photos. I hate traveling through tunnels. It makes me very claustrophobic. I read that Sydney is one of the world’s most interesting cities.

Kadee · Saturday at 5:09 PM

PeppermintPatty said:
Thanks for sharing your Sydney photos. I hate traveling through tunnels. It makes me very claustrophobic. I read that Sydney is one of the world’s most interesting cities.

In June 2024 it had a population of 5.5 million the largest city in Australia ….id hate to lives there it’s so polluted ….
id think the population has increased dramatically in a year + with immigration

I hate the tunnels as well, they are a huge pipe …it was scary ….as there was something wrong with the ventilation system where we traveled via the tunnel ….so lights were flashing …saying speed ~ limit was 30 km hour ….flashing ~ signs saying stay in your car ,~ and keep your windows up ….

there are several tunnels , the one we was in was 9 km long …

PeppermintPatty · Saturday at 5:22 PM

Kadee said:
We have those red coloured trees in winter in the Adelaide hills ,in Mount lofty botanic gardens and towns in the hills https://www.visitadelaidehills.com.au/autumn

( to hot for those trees on the plains , which most of Adelaide is on )
it’s a stunning display and attracts 100’ visitors to the hills area

@PeppermintPatty

Those are beautiful photos @Kadee
We have the Cabot Trail here which I’ve got plenty of pictures of

PeppermintPatty · Sunday at 9:31 AM

Today we went on a completely new walk. It was 15 degrees and cloudy. We walked about 3 1/2 to 4 kilometres. It was an atv trail runnng between a variety of fresh water lakes.
it was so quiet and peaceful.
Then there was a sign directing us to Mill Lake which we followed.

And this is Cranberry Lake. My husband was really hoping to find some cranberries but didn’t. He wants to make cranberry jam.

Have a nice day.

PeppermintPatty · 2025-09-29T11:41:32-0600

Today we went up on Mountain Road, which is a rural dirt road made for trucks to get trees for various reasons. It was 21 degrees and sunny. We walked about 1,hour and 20 minutes . The trees up here turn a lot redder than the ones on the highway. I took a lot of pictures of the trees I saw.

We walked to ‘Little Lake’ and back.
Here are pictures of the lake.

We found an ATV trail that goes to a river that we will walk on another day. We walked a long way already today.
Generally we never see a soul up on these trails but today we saw an ATV with 4 kids in it.